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Friday, February 15, 2013

February Gold for Bloom Day 2013

When Spring arrives in full glory, it is all pinks and blues and yellows and whites. February can show displays of gold.

Live Oak leaves against the dark pink of Loropetalum

Live Oak Trees are shedding old leaves. Unlike deciduous oaks that shed their leaves in fall, Live Oaks lose their leaves as new leaves grow in late winter. Old leaves here are gold colored as they are pushed off by new growth.

That's a really pretty camellia. Your live oak leaves remind me of a story I heard once. A teacher who had recently moved to central Texas from up north was teaching her class about the seasons. When she asked the class what season the leaves drop, her class told her spring. She couldn't figure out why they kept insisting on that until she experienced her first spring there and saw the live oak leaves dropping!

I visited both this and your Wordpress site. Nice to see daffodils blooming. More than a month before ours will. And, I got another camillia fix. They just don't grow here in upstate NY. GBBD helps me get through winter - hope you had a good one.

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